Jack Dingess: “One of the Ron Paul Report newsletters claimed gays were going to donate blood en masse to infect the American blood supply with AIDS. The newsletters were written in the first person as if they were from Ron Paul. How is this any different from Obama’s Rev. Jeremiah Wright claiming the CIA invented AIDS to kill black men.
“Ron Paul was perfectly fine with Neo-Nazis raising money for his 2008 campaign. He went on Iranian national television to claim Israel has concentration camps where it routinely kills Palestinians.
“He admitted writing the newsletters when they came up initially, defended them, and a staffer even said he was continuing to write them. So he is either a liar or the most incompetent candidate ever. Paul is every bit as bad and as dangerous as Barack Obama.”

2011 was a stormy year for me personally in politics. I got to live through the full force of an attempted political assassination.

2011 started with the Sacramento Bee/Auburn Journal, apparently being spurred by David Stafford Reade/Karen England etc into writing hit pieces against the Placer GOP Central Committee. There were allegations of bribery, extortion, money laundering, embezzlement and an FBI Investigation. Tea Parties were brought in to the fray, consultants were brought in, emails were sent out en masse – but we are still here and they are not.

2011 closes with two of the primary accusers off of the Central Committee.
2011 closes with no evidence ever presented of the alleged wrongdoing.
2011 closes with dozens of phone calls to the FPPC and no response or action from them in 4+ months.
2011 closes with 14+ months passing since Karen England alleged an FBI visit to her house – no one else has been contacted since.
2011 closes with the CRA having fought a successful war to rid itself of corruption.
2011 closes with Ted Gaines drawing a formidable opponent and Beth Gaines staring down the barrel of her own challenge.

The following are the 5 top events of 2011 in the Political Life of Aaron F Park:

4. Mere months after attacking the Placer County Republican Party in concert with Doug LaMalfa – Ted Gaines draws a primary opponent. Les Baugh for State Senate, Baby!!!

3. October 27,2011 – celebrated the self-termination of Karen England, the primary accuser with no evidence of the Placer GOP. After not getting her way (aka control), she accumulated 4 absences off of the Central Committee and was removed for it. In addition, 10/27 will forever be known as “FBI DAY” in Placer CRA Circles as this is the day of the alleged visit by the FBI to Karen England’s house – as of the writing of this post… nope, no FBI visit.

2. Beth Gaines files for Assembly. Anyone who missed the point of Ted Gaines’ run against John Doolittle could not miss the ramifications of this move. Beth Gaines won after an apparently coordinated independent expenditure came in late in the race and creative financing from her consultant allowed her to basically spend double her opponent John Allard.

1. The April 2011 CRA Convention. Karen England took her local dispute with Tom, George and I statewide to the CRA convention – we were treated to a consultant-driven smear campaign, a drill that involved 4 members of the state legislature and Saul Alinsky-like tactics at the convention. We Won, they lost – so they took their ball and are trying to form a new organization of their own.

The moral of 2011 – it is a year that would have broken many an activist. I got to see the worst of the GOP – be it Ted Gaines betraying still more people or his creating a political family dynasty, Karen England’s moral corruption, exposing the corruption that had beset the CRA or putting up with the abuse for standing my ground and not allowing these people to go unchecked?

That’s why we ended up in the newspaper, in emails, etc etc etc. David Stafford Reade, Karen England and their crew attempted to take our integrity away. It didn’t work and it won’t work when they try it again.

2011 also reminded me of why I stay and fight for the soul of the GOP – seeing the actions of David Stafford Reade who actively works to undermine Conservatives for pay and the actions of Karen England who appears to be in on the deal… or the people including the previous two that were expelled from CRA for their gross fraud related to CRA.

But the biggest lesson of 2011 was this – I learned through the actions of the electeds that were involved in the attempted takeover of the CRA the most important lesson of all.

To many in elected office – the facts don’t matter, period. They are prima-donnas of the highest order and the only thing that does matter is what affects their next election campaign.

I got in to politics in 1997 to influence elections and I choose to stay and fight for the soul of the GOP against this sort of elected that infest so many offices around the country.

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I know where Beth Gaines was, sending out emails in an attempt to inflame a political attack by people with no evidence? Was that it?

She certainly was nowhere to be found in the business she claims to be part owner of, etc. etc. etc…

Now – we are starting to get concrete examples of the lack of leadership back-bencher Beth Gaines has brought to CA AD-06.

I could rail on her participation in attacking the Placer-CRA led Central Committee – but that could be dismissed as personal. However, today, the Bee provides us with an example of what all of us knew intuitively about Beth Gaines.

Did we even get a constituent email from Beth Gaines that she was fighting for us? Of course not (although, when they see this blog, you can make bank that they will attempt to grandstand on the next would-be exodus of a California Business)… Beth Gaines is in one of the smallest offices in the Capitol doing next to nothing for anyone and no amount of spin or last-second sudden interest can change that.

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I couldn’t think of a better title. This guy is insane, inconsistent, a liar, a fraud and is like a cult leader.

I have a lot of Conservative friends that love Ron Paul – I get railed on with the “Constitution” every time I dare speak up against Ron Paul. I get sick, and it is disturbing to me that many good conservatives are getting led down the garden path by a charlatan like Ron Paul.

Before I even get in to his blatant hypocrisy and double-spoken lies I start with Ron Paul’s contempt for the greatest Republican of recent history – in 1987 Ron Paul said that the Reagan Administration was a “Dramatic Failure”. Now, Paul attempts to invoke Ronald Reagan in his ads!

Ron Paul refused to endorse John McCain in 2008 – stating that he could find nothing in common with McCain. John McCain scored 90% and 100% from the American Conservative Union in 2009/2010. Ron Paul preferred instead to endorse Cynthia McKinney – the Green Party Nominee and Ralph Nader, the far-left Attorney that was the Independent Nominee.

Ron Paul is one of the largest contradictions in political history – all the while piously pointing a finger of judgment at Mitt Romney.

The Congressman says he supports a strong national defense and emphasizes his military service, but he was an Air Force doctor. Today he wants to cut $1 trillion out of the Pentagon budget which would end all modernization and readiness programs. He would abandon NATO and abolish the CIA, the Department of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act.

He would give up America’s veto power in the UN Security Council as well as all military assistance to Israel – under the guise of stopping foreign aid. 85% of the money given to Israel is military support.

Ron Paul claims to be pro life – and attacks Mitt Romney for his record on the life issue. Problem – it was Ron Paul, not Mitt Romney that scored 65%, 75%, 65% from NARAL from 2004-2006. Romney was given a perfect 0 by Naral in his 2007-2008 Presidential bid.

While accusing other Republicans of being liars – here is part of Ron Paul’s record on the truth: Paul falsely claims – Palestinians are starving and confined to a “concentration camp”; the United States financed Osama bin Laden during the first Afghan War; the CIA is behind the sale of illegal drugs; there is an “international conspiracy” focused on the non-existent North American Union.

6. Carried on an extramarital affair with a House staffer 20-years his junior during the Clinton impeachment trial (they’re now married);

7. Tried to explain away said extramarital affair by saying, “There’s no question at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate”;

8. Sribbled a note describing himself as an “Advocate of civilization, defender of civilization, teacher of the rules of civilization, arouser of those who form civilization, organizer of the pro-civilization activists, and leader ‘possibly’ of the civilizing forces”;

13. Called Paul Ryan’s budget “right-wing social engineering” and then, two days later, said, “The budget vote is one that I’m happy to say I would have voted for…So, let me say on the record: Any ad which quotes what I said Sunday is a falsehood”;

14. Called for “a massive new program to build a permanent lunar colony to exploit the Moon’s resources”;

16. Suggested that “a mirror system in space could provide the light equivalent of many full moons so that there would be no need for nighttime lighting of the highways”;

17. Said that “most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama” is that “[Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]”;

18. Was fined $300,000 by the House Ethics Committee for offering “incomplete, unreliable, and inaccurate” information during an investigation of a for-profit college course he developed while serving in Congress;

19. Helped the GOP lose the 1995 government-shutdown showdown by saying that “part of why you ended up with us sending down a tougher continuing resolution” was that he didn’t get good enough seats on Air Force One;